This Group celebtrates Boring, ordinary, dull, commercial Postcards that feature aspects of our everyday life – such as streets, roads, houses -- and are, in a strange way, interesting because they are so uninteresting. Join in and share your Postcards of our Boring world.
Location: Sigean, France
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From time to time we have outbreaks of whether a Postcard is Boring, or not.“Yes it is”. “No it isn''t.”“All Postcards are Boring.” “All Postcards are interesting”.And so on, and so forth.So, LET'S TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENTAnnouncingINTERESTING…Continue
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DULL OR BORING?I am a member of the British-based Dull Men's Club (DMC) – which also includes women, and, indeed, claims to…Continue
Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Gerald Jatzek Nov 27, 2021.
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Do the hippos look Bored, or are they enjoting themselves 'wherever they are)?
What does the message on the back of the card say? "Here I am with young Pieter at Warsaw Zoo'?
Thanks Raphael -- is this a Postcard? If it is, it is certainly Boring. Thank!
(I feel that I am on safer ground limiting my comments to the image you posted, rather than the very serious issues that you raise. It is not that I seek to avoid discussing them with you, but this is not really the place to do so. That's my commentary)
HOW TO MAKE A BORING POSTCARD A BIT MORE INTERESTING, PART 2
Here is a Boring Postcard of the shopping center at the Perrache Station in Lyon, France. You can't really see the shops, as two-thirds of the Postcard is given over to a hanging 'thing':
But if you turn the Postcard upside down then the 'thing' (and the shops) takes on a different perspective -- sort of an opening flower?
Photof from annual Polish Episcopathe meeting.
Catholic intellectuals in Poland since 2005, since the death of John Paul II, have argued about the definition of the JP II generation, which is faithful to his teachings. But recent experiences related to the Episcopate and Bishops in Poland show that this generation is only a corporation of bishops. Honors - money - pedophilia - moral rot. this is how the search for noble ideals reached the prosaic reality embellished with a pedophile and hiding it. thats my commentary...
HOW TO MAKE A BORING POSTCARD A BIT MORE INTERESTING, PART 1
Here is a Boring Postcard of a sort of barn (a grange) at a monastery in Rochefort, France:
Not a lot is happening there, but if you turn it on it's side it looks a bit more interesting:
(Part 2 will come after a break from our commercial sponsors)
FRENCH HUNTERS (methinks they should be shot) HIDING IN A BIRD HIDE
The guy at the top seems to be peering out of a tank whoch, seems, even by French hunting 'standards', to be an unfair piece of armanent to shoot birds.
These hunters, even by French hunting 'standards', can't be very good and/or are very short-sighted, as there is a pigeon perched on theor hide.
Vive le pigeon!
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